The problem is who can tell after this period of time? There are going to a lot of cranks mixed in with genuine cases - I'd envy the police trying to work out which is which decades later.

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Double that now Savile estate worth 4 million has been seized.

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Well the BBC said £2m and they said the executors had frozen the dispersal of assets at the request of the family. This is hardly 'seized'. I strongly suspect that if the family had not been bothered the estate would have been doled out with absolutely no legal requirement to withhold any of it. You can't try a dead man and you can't force anyone else to pay for his crimes. His family have acted honourably throughout this and are without blame.

The problem is who can tell after this period of time? There are going to a lot of cranks mixed in with genuine cases - I'd envy the police trying to work out which is which decades later.

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Double that now Savile estate worth 4 million has been seized.

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Well the BBC said £2m and they said the executors had frozen the dispersal of assets at the request of the family. This is hardly 'seized'. I strongly suspect that if the family had not been bothered the estate would have been doled out with absolutely no legal requirement to withhold any of it. You can't try a dead man and you can't force anyone else to pay for his crimes. His family have acted honourably throughout this and are without blame.

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I am sure nobody said his family were to blame...people are just pointing out what's happening.

I have no idea how they would go about proving all those alligations, i assume if so many diffrent people who have never meet each other describe the same modus operandi from Savile then that might be enough.........although i dont know how much the tabloids have muddled the waters by revealing so much.

Former BBC director general George Entwistle was only prepared to resign for the £450,000 pay-off he would have received if sacked, MPs have been told.BBC Trustee Anthony Fry told the Public Accounts Committee of his "irritation" at having to pay the full sum, and not the £225,000 payable for a resignation.But he said he had felt the quickest way of removing Mr Entwistle was best.

Mr Entwistle quit on 10 November after a Newsnight report led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly accused of child abuse.Mr Fry said that Mr Entwistle would have concluded from his meeting with the BBC Trust earlier that day that he no longer had its full confidence.His lawyers soon afterwards made it clear he would resign for the £450,000 pay-off, which represented a year's salary.

"I had to take off my substantial irritation and think, what at this point is in the best interests of the BBC and the licence fee-payers?" said Mr Fry.

Who knew it was that easy to get a years pay.....and who can blame him, how is anybody supposed to live on a £250.000 pay off these days. lol

Take in to account expenses and everything and the prime minister gets more than his wage. Though when it comes down to it Entwhistle's salery would have been less than half of Mark Thompson's so it's come down a lot. Personally I think Entwhistle could have been a good man for the job if this whole thing hadn't happened when it did. But I still find this whole thing very very odd.

I not sympathy for Entwistle, an overpaid dithering functionary who mishandled events pretty much as badly as he could, leading to a rapidly boring shit fight between the BBC, Tories, News Corporation, and Daily Sieg Heil (I'd hate the idea of the BBC being defanged by the latter factions).

And did anybody see last night's ITV Exposure documentary which mainly focused on how Jimmy Savile, despite lacking any formal qualifications, wormed his way deep into many medical institutions? He had virtually total access at the Broadmoor hospital prison and it has been claimed that Savile was a very manipulative bully who could expertly blackmail his work colleagues.

And here's Louis Theroux's on hindsight terrifying interview again after it got pulled from YouTube.